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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Good work. >From what you say, what I'd do now is use the onPageClose (onClosePage?) event to make sure the sound in the page you're leaving is killed properly, so it can be set up in the page you're entering. I remember having to deal with pages containing sound quite carefully when navigating on a framework as I wrote the engine, and those things won't happen when the sound icon is in the entry frame as pages are navigated. I'll try some things and let you know what happens. Keep me in touch with what you discover.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>If your structure is quite predictable, this might be a good candidate for making into a template. Hold the text, and paths to graphics and sound files in an xml file, and use the wizard to edit it? Take a look at the 'Developing Templates' doc on the web site.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Kent Chesnut<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sat 20/09/2008 23:38<BR><B>To:</B> Xerte discussion list<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Xerte] Sound "wait" problem on web<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Julian,<BR>Thanks so much for the quick response.<BR> <BR>The streaming property had no effect.<BR> <BR>Also, I reviewed the pageTemplate. I'm no expert, but it appeared you used the controls and let the user start the playback... anyway, the play property was off and I couldn't find anyplace that called play.<BR> <BR>I did a little more playing... I set up the Sound Icon to have play and wait off, and moved it out of the interaction up into the Entry Frame. I used loadSound() (called when a page is entered) with events onSoundComplete and onLoad. I was able to get the program to function correctly when I used the flash id.getSound().start(0,0) to play the sound.<BR>(Play() would work... but I had problems when going to the next page and playing... seemed it wanted to start playing at the end... had some luck with .reset(), but kept finding odd conditions that wouldn't work.<BR> <BR>Thanks so much for your help.<BR> <BR>Have a great weekend,<BR>Kent<BR><BR><BR>
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<BR>Subject: RE: [Xerte] Sound "wait" problem on web<BR>Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:54:22 +0100<BR>From: Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk<BR>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>it ought to work as you describe. I have a similar situation in the pageTemplate.rlt file for handling narration on each page with one sound icon in the entry frame - you might check that out.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial>Before you do that, try setting the streaming property to 1 and see if that helps.</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Kent Chesnut<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sat 20/09/2008 15:51<BR><B>To:</B> xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Xerte] Sound "wait" problem on web<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Xerte Users,<BR>I have yet another newbie type question. Sorry to be a pain.<BR> <BR>I've put all my interactions within the entry frame of the project and just use the pages to set up text, sound file name, ... I have a sound icon in a perpetual interaction within the entry frame (the user pushes a button to initiate the sound) set up to play FileLocation + audiofilename. The Play and Wait properties are set. When a page is opened, the audiofilename is set (to something like 'phone1.mp3'). When the user clicks the button, a "playing" message is shown, the audio is played, and then the message is removed.<BR> <BR>This works fine within the development environment. When put on the web, however, control falls on through the sound icon and the "playing" message is only shown momentarily (even though the sound goes ahead and plays correctly). If the button is pressed again, the program acts as expected.<BR> <BR>My theory... the sound file is not loaded when the sound icon is activated, so the wait function doesn't work and control falls on through. A few seconds later, the sound file is completely loaded, so the sound icon works as expected. <BR> <BR>Does my theory sound correct?<BR>Is there a way to work around the problem? like preloading the sound file?<BR>Or is there a better way to handle this situation?<BR> <BR>Any advice you can provide would be appreciated.<BR> <BR>Have a great day,<BR>Kent<BR><BR>
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